Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... closely resembling the Old English accentual system , and now and then very pleasantly anachronistic effects result : lightning at noonday Swiftly stooping to the summer - house Engraves its disgust on engrossed flesh , And at tea ...
... closely resembling the Old English accentual system , and now and then very pleasantly anachronistic effects result : lightning at noonday Swiftly stooping to the summer - house Engraves its disgust on engrossed flesh , And at tea ...
Page 89
... closely this return to " the tradition " in metrics is connected with a similar movement in general intellectual taste it would be hard to say . It will be obvious , however , to those who can see in history the very intimate alliance ...
... closely this return to " the tradition " in metrics is connected with a similar movement in general intellectual taste it would be hard to say . It will be obvious , however , to those who can see in history the very intimate alliance ...
Page 158
... closely merged by the repeated rhymes , one in the middle of the stanza , one at the end : we get the illusion that the couplets are being brought forth from the quatrains rather than superadded to them . The two fundamentally different ...
... closely merged by the repeated rhymes , one in the middle of the stanza , one at the end : we get the illusion that the couplets are being brought forth from the quatrains rather than superadded to them . The two fundamentally different ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
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accentual accentual-syllabic action actual aesthetic anapestic beginning blank verse caesura century classical conventions Copyright critical device effect elements Eliot emotional emphasis English poetry English verse enjambment example experience expressive Faber feet fixed forms foot formal heroic couplet iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee irony kind language logical meaning medial caesura ment meter metrical variations metrist musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization Paradise Lost pattern perhaps permission Petrarchan sonnet poem poet's Pope position principle prose prosodic pyrrhic quatrain reader regularity reinforce rhetorical rhyme scheme rhythmical Sapphic Sapphic stanza scansion seems sense sestet Shakespearean shape song sort sound Spenserian spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stress strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee texture thing Thom Gunn thou tion tradition triplet trisyllabic trochee turn unstressed syllables versification W. H. Auden white space William words Wordsworth's Yeats